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“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahe...”
“No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill...”
“Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.”
“Spring is a virgin Summer a mother Autumn a widow and Winter a stepmother.”
“April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.”
“Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long deferment of the calendar's promise that weeping gloom of March and April that bitter blast outraging ...”
“No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.”
“Every April God rewrites the Book of Genesis.”
“Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
“June's too soon July's too late - for summer.”
“April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.”
“Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.”
